![]() After The Deed Is Done, a straightforward pop/rock album, the group took some time off in 1985 while its Double Trouble Live album, a collection of some of its best-known songs, was released. ![]() The band experimented with horns on Take No Prisoners, but Farrar left for a solo career soon afterward.Ä«rown rejoined the band in 1982, but the ensuing album, No Guts.No Glory, flopped, and guitarist Hlubek insisted on revamping Molly Hatchet's sound. Brown left the group in 1980 after the constant touring became too tiresome he was replaced by Jimmy Farrar for Beatin' the Odds, but Farrar's voice was less immediately identifiable, and Molly Hatchet's commercial appeal began a slow decline. They recorded a self-titled debut album in 1978, which quickly went platinum the follow-up, Flirtin' with Disaster, was even more successful, selling over two million copies. Formed in 1975, the group's original lineup featured three guitarists - Dave Hlubek, Steve Holland, and Duane Roland - plus vocalist Danny Joe Brown, bassist Banner Thomas, and drummer Bruce Crump. Named after a legendary Southern prostitute who allegedly beheaded and mutilated her clients, Jacksonville's Molly Hatchet melded loud hard-rock boogie with guitar jam-oriented Southern rock.
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